The IRA were Northern Irish. They may not have wanted to be UK nationals, but they were.
Several were born south of the border, for instance Sean O'Callaghan
The free travel area between Ireland and the UK isn't part of the EU, either.
Correct, however upon brexit how long will Ireland be able to stay out of schengen? That would mean either
* open borders with Europe after leaving the EU
or
* Borders between northern and southern ireland, or borders between northern ireland and the uk
I suspect #1 will be the option chosen.
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There was a very interesting interview with Amber Rudd, the energy secretary on the radio this morning. She was pointing out that leaving the EU could potentially cause a massive disruption to the energy market, which on face value is possibly true.
The question that wasn't touched on was why we have an energy market so dependant on foreign supply lines in the first place. Particularly as we are in a position of closing power stations with seemingly not enough generating capacity to rely on. Our comparative lack of natural gas storage, compared to other European countries has been apparent ever since the North sea has begun to run out.
I can't help but wonder whether this great energy market has, over the past two decades allowed our own Governments to neglect developing a suitable energy mix, investment in generating/storage infrastructure. Perhaps a greater degree of self-sufficiency is the answer, rather than becoming more dependant on the international energy market.
So you're saying it's more incompetence from westminster government? And you want to leave the democratically elected EU and put more power in the hands of a government which had 65% of the population vote against?
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The EU can never be democratic as theres not enough people to hold others accountable and it is this that makes me wonder why the Labour party like it as they believ, like I do in democracy.
Democracy where 100% of the decisions are made by a party that received 34% of the votes?
That's not democratic enough?
Who, specifically, needs to be held more accountable?
It cant work due to so many countries having issues from farming to sitting in the sun doing **** all for nothing which makes it useless.
I agree, that's why the UK can't exist as a single country either. Too many areas that are massively disparate.
Even America cant deal with its states individually so who ever thought it would be a good idea here is mental. Apart from the Germans, stan.
America has 50 states, from Florida to Alaska, with very different needs. Some decisions are taken at a federal level, some at a state level.
Are you proposing the EU, which is a similar size and population to the US, be set up in the same way - a "United States of Europe" as Winston Churchill suggested?